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Caravan Groups To Trump Admin: Pay $50K To Each Migrant And We'll Go Home

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When the Spanish built their colonial empire they did so not on largely unpopulated territory that would define the English and French settlements to the north but rather on lands that were civilized or nearly so, lands with reasonably high aboriginal populations. The first Spaniards to come were men, and without Spanish senioritas to comfort them at night they turned to the local women. A vast number of Mestizos - mixed Indian and European peoples - were the fruits of those early unions. After a while the Spanish brought in slaves from Africa who then bred Mulatto children, and the African and Indian peoples interbred, too as well as the Mulatto and Mestizo peoples. The Spanish - who were quite race conscious as all peoples were in that era - created a carefully plotted chart, Las Castas or genizaros https://www.encyclopedia.com/humanities/encyclopedi
as-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/caste-and-class-structure-colonial-spanish-america, to keep track of Spanish "pure" blood.

 There were 4 main racial categories: Peninsular Spanish born in Spain, Criollo (native born Spaniards), Indio, and Negro. Each of these was divided into innumerable sub-groupings based on how much blood of each category an individual possessed. These classifications determined the course of the individual's life. Their place in society, their professions, their levels of taxation, etc. Casts - the mixed race individuals - would come to over a hundred different mixes, each with specific status and obligations. Peninsular Spanish aka Espanoles were at the top while those of pure Negro descent occupied the lowest rung of the ladder as slaves. The lower levels were generally expected to pay more in taxes than the higher casts while their livelihood was limited to the least desirable levels. The Peninsular and Creoles ran the government and all major businesses.

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Timothy Birdnow

Joseph Farah echoes my sentiments in a scathing piece on Brett Kavanaugh at World Net Dailey.

From the article:

"Now we know, for certain, that Brett Kavanaugh is a fraud. He should never have been President Trump’s first choice. He’s a weakling. He buckled to the extreme left to salvage his own reputation. I had a bad feeling about this guy – ever since his role in the Vincent Foster cover-up and his tutelage by former independent counsel Kenneth Starr.

How many times do we have to see this kind of betrayal by Republican nominees of Supreme Court justices – Sandra Day O’Connor, Anthony Kennedy, David Souter, John Roberts?

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A St. Louis gas station owner is being charged with pricing his gas too low - and it could wind up costing him $5.6 million dollars!

From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch:

"A St. Louis jury awarded Westmoreland $1.8 million in October after he and his attorneys said that Midwest-St. Louis LLC had violated the law by pricing gas below cost.

St. Louis Circuit Judge Elizabeth Hogan ruled Nov. 30 that under the law, the jury’s award should be tripled. She also added in about $200,000 in attorney’s fees, for a total of $5.6 million.

Gogel cautioned that an appeal by Midwest was likely.

Westmoreland’s original suit, filed in St. Louis Circuit Court in 2015, says that Midwest, which does business as Gas Mart 6, began cutting prices at a station at 209 East Grand Avenue in 2012, ultimately driving Westmoreland’s Go West Mart gas station, at 6020 North Broadway, out of business.

Gogel said that the owners of Midwest had since bought Westmoreland’s old station.

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Funny; I thought we lived in a free market society. Didn't know we had to get permission to cut prices on things. America is now a Corporatist state, with an economic policy Mussolini or Hitler would find very comforting.

The Communists had a saying "first Brown then Red". America is clearly Brown as the Mississippi River.

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In addition, Daniels is making money stripping throughout America. She has stormed through Washington, D.C. at least twice. I’m told she’s a good dancer, but that might have been a polite way of saying she’s too old to be stripping.

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Dana Mathewson

Food for thought:

One of the biggest mysteries in history is the late Bronze Age Collapse. There's no good explanation for why an early globalized civilization should suddenly disappear at around 1177 BC. "Within a period of forty to fifty years at the end of the thirteenth and the beginning of the twelfth century almost every significant city in the eastern Mediterranean world was destroyed, many of them never to be occupied again."

Modern archaeologists have advanced a number of theories to explain this catastrophe, several of which will sound familiar to modern ears. Climate change -- not the anthropogenic kind, since "fossil fuels" had not yet been developed -- might have caused drought and starvation. A technological revolution caused by the replacement of bronze with iron could have destabilized the international system. Perhaps the most modern-sounding of all explanations is "complexity." The interdependence fostered by trade left the linked empires open to a general systems collapse as the failure in one place unleashed a cascade of effects in others:

The growing complexity and specialization of the Late Bronze Age political, economic, and social organization in Carol Thomas and Craig Conant's phrase together made the organization of civilization too intricate to reestablish piecewise when disrupted. That could explain why the collapse was so widespread and able to render the Bronze Age civilizations incapable of recovery.

The critical flaws of the Late Bronze Age are its centralization, specialization, complexity, and top-heavy political structure. These flaws then were exposed by sociopolitical events (revolt of peasantry and defection of mercenaries), fragility of all kingdoms (Mycenaean, Hittite, Ugaritic, and Egyptian), demographic crises (overpopulation), and wars between states. Other factors that could have placed increasing pressure on the fragile kingdoms include piracy by the Sea Peoples interrupting maritime trade, as well as drought, crop failure, famine, or the Dorian migration or invasion.

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Paul Driessen

News anchors, editorial writers, late night hosts and social media users recently ridiculed President Donald Trump – raked him over the coals, one could say – for suggesting that California should do what Finland does: "rake” forest areas that have been thinned or clear-cut, to remove leaves and other debris that could otherwise start conflagrations. Many of the clever comments were accompanied with pictures of garden rakes. Hah, hah.

Only it turns out that Mr. Trump was right! As Finnish professor and think tank advisor Mikko Paunio explains in this article, Finland really does do this – using heavy machinery to "rake” branches, pine cones and other material into huge piles. The biomass is then chipped onsite and hauled to heat-producing plants that help warm local homes. The crews also till the areas thoroughly, so that any fires cannot move easily through them to incinerate other areas.

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Jack Kemp

I want to add the following comment to this story about the Mankato "professor" insulting a basic tenet of Christianity.

The website has a picture of this smug punk professor. Somehow I believe that if this smug young punk professor had come to America as a refugee after WWII, such as myself or that other former refugee writer at Amer. Thinker, a Christian whose name escapes me now, he wouldn't be in such a hurry to make up unprovable inflamatory arguments on matters of faith that insult the majority of Americans.

Stalin once replied, when told the Pope disagreed with him, "How many (military) divisions does the Pope have?" I believe both Catholicism and Protestantism have a lot more divisions than this jerk from Mankato State - and a lot better argument.

I once wrote a blog post at American Thinker, long before Dinesh D'Souza wrote something similar, that if an atheist tells you there is no right or wrong, you should ask them for the address of their grandmother so that you can go beat her up and take her Social Security check on the first of the month before she deposits it. Likewise, if this Satanist professor operates under the delusion that only he can make up his own morality and rules.

The next time he encounters three tall, muscular young men on a dark street at night he will well wish that they are not satanists such as himself because they might decide to beat, rob and perhaps even rape him. He has no idea what real street thug satanists would do to him, given the chance. The professor is, ironically, assuming a level of Judeo-Christian based civility and culture that others will hold to while he abandons it himself. This could be a deadly mistake on his part. And I doublt, were he teaching at a high school in Minneapolis with a large number of Somali students, that he would risk insulting "Issa" (the Arabic name for Jesus who is considered a prophet but not a messiah in Islam) in such a manner. His trip to the parking lot after work on a winter's early sunset night in Minnesota might include a detour to the local hospital.

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George H.W. Bush, the nation’s 41st President died last week, at age 94, the longest-lived in American history, although Jimmy Carter will break that record if he lives for another five months. The mainstream media, most of whom treated Bush with varying degrees of scorn, ridicule, and occasional hatred back in the day, have mostly bent over backwards to heap praise upon his memory today. Conservative and Republican-leaning media have stressed the former President’s undeniable human decency, while liberal outlets have praised mistakes like Justice David Souter, and legislative errors like the Clean Water Act and the Americans With Disabilities Act, that bonanza for ambulance chasing personal injury lawyers. Some members of the liberal media, the always wrong E.J. Dionne in particular, have labeled the former President as a "Burkean Conservative”, celebrating Mr. Bush for his cautious center-right leanings, which supposedly saved the nation after eight years of dangerous Reaganite true-conservative excess. These tributes might have been more convincing if those who now celebrate Mr. Bush would admit that they didn’t always like him, but no matter.

It is customary when a great man passes away to stress his virtues, and to downplay his mistakes, as, out of common courtesy, one does not speak ill of the dead. Those who have noted President Bush and his shortcomings have pointed out that he sometimes trusted his opponents, especially Pat Moynihan and Dick Gephardt, a little too much, and some noted, too, that Bush never felt any kinship with the movement conservatives, whom he considered a noisy distraction, who got in the way of his governing the country. Still, few commentators have noted that the 41st President’s most significant handicap, one that he, himself, identified in 1987, namely the lack of "…the vision thing”.

Before we plunge into a discussion of this somewhat misunderstood, and certainly terminologically-challenged phenomenon, we must understand a few facts for background purposes. The late President Bush was, as most people know, a walking Curriculum Vitae of honors, positions, and achievements. He became the U.S. Navy’s youngest pilot in 1942, and he served gallantly during the Second World War. After time spent in the oil industry, Bush moved into public life, serving two terms in Congress, a stint as the Republican National Committee chairman, Director of the CIA, and American envoy to the People’s Republic of China. Bush, though, had never been associated with a movement or an idea. He had usually served capably in appointed, not elected, positions, and those positions were mostly of secondary importance, leading some to question whether he was up to the challenge of leadership. In fact, Mr. Bush resembled some Republican figures of the past, namely William Howard Taft, Herbert Hoover, and Richard Nixon in fashioning impressive records, only to find that the Presidency is an entirely different affair.

In any event, Bush noted that his biggest problem, when seeking the Presidency on his own, was the fact that he had no overarching goal or plan for the nation. He couldn’t quite put this into words, so he dismissed it as "…the vision thing…”, and assumed that all would work out for the best. It all started well enough, when Bush won a very comfortable election victory in November of 1988.

Yet, in the end, the lack of the "vision thing” caused Bush to lose his bearings on numerous occasions. He could not imagine American victory in the Cold War, so he worked with the Russian leadership to keep the Soviet Union intact, contravening the greatest achievement of his old boss, Ronald Reagan. He could not envision a world infused by entrepreneurial energy, free of big government and high taxes, so he allowed Moynihan and Gephardt to maneuver him into the tax increase of 1990. He could not envision a world in which federal agencies like OSHA, HHS, and the Environmental Protection Agency were not sticking their noses into everyone’s business, so he became, as the Wall Street Journal noted, "The Regulatory President”.

Throughout all this, Bush maintained his temper, his sense of proportion, and his decorum, but was attacked for seeming aloof, and distant. He saw the Presidency as a business of supporting good legislation and sensible policy but could not rise above the role of the tinkerer or the national mechanic-technician. If you were expecting Bush to be a Roosevelt, a Kennedy, or a Reagan, you were out of luck. He was more in the mold of a Gerald Ford, in terms of being well-meaning, and somewhat successful, but hardly inspiring. So, a good man and a passable President, has now departed this world, and God grant him rest. Though a man of limited "vision”, Bush served his country honorably and ably. That is an epitaph for a life well lived!

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Jack Kemp forwards this follow up story:

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Jack Kemp forwards this:


Bozell & Graham Column: NPR Shamelessly Exploits Cheap Labor

"National Public Radio is out begging for donations this week, with major stations like Washington's WAMU offering gifts like those silly reusable grocery bags touting the "The Power of Truth". But the truth can be pretty embarrassing. Apparently, NPR exploits cheap labor.

Washington Post media reporter Paul Farhi has revealed that according to union representatives, 20 to 22 percent of NPR's 483 union-covered newsroom workforce, or one in five employees, are temps...and they've been doing this for decades

"Without temporary workers” who are subject to termination without cause ” NPR would probably be unable to be NPR," Farhi reported. "Temps do almost every important job in NPR's newsroom: They pitch ideas, assign stories, edit them, report and produce them. Temps not only book the guests heard in interviews, they often write the questions the hosts ask the guests."

This is an unusual arrangement in the media. About five percent of the staff at a typical TV station is employed on a part-time or temporary basis, according to the Radio Television Digital News Association. Radio stations, with smaller news staffs, reported an average of just one part-timer or temp in that survey.

The pay isn't awful $21.63 per hour, or $45,000 a year if you worked full time but there's no guarantee you will be working consistently. There's health insurance â€" if you work consistently. And it takes a toll, even on the people still working there. One wrote:"any, if not most, of the folks I work with in the newsroom started in this ugly purgatory"


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Jack Kemp

I pretty much have to agree with Buchanan's assessment of the situation. Something more has to be done to fix this nation and end its overriding trivial pursuits.


How Democracy Is Losing the World

From the article:

"Does the world still envy us our free press, which it sees tirelessly digging up dirt on political figures and flaying them with abandon?

Among the reasons democracy is in discredit and retreat worldwide is that its exemplar and champion, the USA, is beginning to resemble France's Third Republic in its last days before World War II.

Also, democracy no longer has the field largely to itself as to how to create a prosperous and powerful nation-state.
This century, China has shown aspiring rulers how a single-party regime can create a world power, and how democracy is not a necessary precondition for extraordinary economic progress.

Vladimir Putin, an autocratic nationalist, has shown how a ruined nation can be restored to a great power in the eyes of its people and the world, commanding a new deference and respect.

Democracy is a bus you get off when it reaches your stop, says Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan. After the attempted coup in the summer of 2017, Erdogan purged his government and military of tens of thousands of enemies and jailed more journalists than any other nation."

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"What does American democracy now offer the world as its foremost attribute, its claim to greatness?
"Our diversity is our strength!" proclaims this generation.

We have become a unique nation composed of peoples from every continent and country, every race, ethnicity, culture and creed on earth.

But is not diversity what Europe is openly fleeing from?

Is there any country of the Old Continent clamoring for more migrants from the Maghreb, sub-Sahara or Middle East?
Broadly, it seems more true to say that the world is turning away from transnationalism toward tribalism, and away from diversity and back to the ethno-nationalism whence the nations came."

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Dana Mathewson

From the U.K. Daily Mail:

"Bill and Hillary Clinton have been forced to resort to selling half price tickets for their 13-city tour on Groupon in a desperate bid to put bums on seats.

The former president and first lady launched their tour in a Canadian hockey arena last Tuesday to an underwhelming crowd and swaths of empty seats.

Ticket prices were plummeting shortly before the event, with the cheapest seats selling on Stubhub for single-digits - $6.55 Canadian Dollars, or less than $5.

Now the couple are taking drastic action to avoid another embarrassment on the next stop on their An Evening With the Clintons tour.

They have slashed tickets by up to 60 per cent, and even offered them on Groupon, to try and entice more fans to come and listen to them speak.

On the official site, there were still seats for the tour available for up to $325, with other floor seats going for $83 plus a hefty service charge, but on Groupon, they can be picked up for as little as $35.

The tour is currently on a break for the holidays and reconvenes in New York on April 11, 2019, before moving on to nine other cities including DC, Boston, LA and Las Vegas"

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Jack Kemp adds:

The tour is currently on a break for the holidays and reconvenes in New York on April 11, 2019

Gee, and I won't get a chance to see her if they cancel the tour. Actually, I did see Hillary years ago when she surpised me by marching in a Salute to Israel Parade in NY. These other socialist Jews applauded her - and I was literally sick to my stomach watching this. I've never ben back to the parade again.

Hat tip; Urgent Agenda.

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A decade ago, the World Wildlife Fund issued a nigh-hysterical "study” that warned humanity would have to abandon Planet Earth and colonize two planets within the next 50 years, if we continue to exploit natural resources at the current rate. Humans are "plundering the planet at a pace that outstrips its capacity to support life,” the WWF intoned ominously.

Building on that success, the same doomsayers recently issued an equally credible "study,” warning that humans have killed more than half of all the wildlife in the world since 1970. And it’s mostly the fault of the United States, because (among other sins) it has resisted and even blocked the "transition to a net carbon-neutral society” and has not done enough to "halt and reverse nature loss.”

Both "reports” naturally received adulatory coverage by the "mainstream” media, which always likes to exploit a good crisis to sell copies and advertising. In this article, bona fide environment and natural resources expert Greg Walcher offers a few facts that eviscerate the WWF claims.

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Jack Kemp

You know the lines from the Evita (Peron) musical:

I came from the people, they need to adore me

So Christian Dior me from my head to my toes...
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I can assure you that I and Michael Savage (he grew up a block away from me) spent more time in the South Bronx before we were ten than did Ms. Ocasio-Cortez. And the first time I climbed a ladder on a kibbutz to pick olives I probably did more real physical work that day that Ocasio-Cortez (or kibbutz "volunteer" Bernie Sanders) has ever d more...

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Jack Kemp

I went for a walk to clear my head and I came up with a Jewish name for Occasional Cortex.

In the story of Purim, there was a Jewish Queen in Persia. Her name was Queen Esther. I would call Ocasio-Cortez "Queen Pester" for all her obnoxious and stupid tweets.

Fay Voshell replies:

Actually, her claim is a pretty serious political move. She appears to be courting the liberal Jewish crowd, for whom the religion of progressivism has replaced the Torah.


Mr. Kemp replies:

Fay, you are so right. And the wallets of the progressives. The big Dem donator Tom Steyer has one Jewish parent.

Look, the liberal crowd is looking for a new perhaps female Messiah. Her role is to fulfill their fantasies of Ocasio-Cortez becoming the new Evita Peron. I can hear her singing "Don't Cry For Me, Southern Boulevard" (a major South Bronx street).

Hillary was still fulfilling that role in emotional sense when her grand theater tour of Canada fell down. The Dems need a new young star queen. Oprah and Michelle Obama aren't running. So they are grooming the next Obama - remember he was groomed as a younger man as well with his fake years at Columbia U. In fact, Ortez has said in public she wants to run for President, thinking there is a loophole that will allow her to run in 2020, years before her 35th birthday. See "Ocasio-Cortez Misquotes The Constitution While Threatening Presidential Run" .

Here's a brief quote from the article:

"The 29-year-old Democratic Congresswoman-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said that if Republicans do not pass the Equal Rights Amendment she would run for president to teach them a lesson, Politico reported."
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This is why one conservative writer said we should be savagely mocking her NOW because her view of the world and the Constitution needs to be ridiculed before it becomes the accepted Big Lie.

She's Jewish? She probalby thinks a shofar is someone who drives you to High Holiday Services such as Rosh Hashanna. As you may know, you are not supposed to ride on the Sabbath or on the High Holidays.

Frankly, she's not fooling anyone. A vote for her is a vote for more free stuff from "Obama's stash." But she is more like Sarah Silverman than she is like Gov. Sarah Palin. Ocasio-Cortez is like Chelsea Handler without the drinking problem.

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Andrew McCarthy says Donald Trump is likely to be indicted. From Fox News:

"But when Cohen pleaded guilty in August, prosecutors induced him to make an extraordinary statement in open court: the payments to the women were made "in coordination with and at the direction of” the candidate for federal office – Donald Trump.

Prosecutors would not have done this if the president was not on their radar screen. Indeed, if the president was not implicated, I suspect they would not have prosecuted Cohen for campaign finance violations at all. Those charges had a negligible impact on the jail time Cohen faces, which is driven by the more serious offenses of tax and financial institution fraud, involving millions of dollars.

Moreover, campaign finance infractions are often settled by payment of an administrative fine, not turned into felony prosecutions. To be sure, federal prosecutors in New York City have charged them as felonies before – most notably in 2014 against Dinesh D’Souza, whom Trump later pardoned."

[...]

"Nevertheless, the sentencing memo in Cohen’s case reads like an ode to campaign finance laws. Unlike other types of pleadings, which can be dry and legalistic, sentencing memoranda are meant to persuade the sentencing judge, and they often read like dramatic jury arguments."

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Read the rest at Fox.

I don't know if the powers that be understand that they are openly overturning the will of the People and that America may well blow up over this - up to and including violece. The enemies of the president think this is just an inside-the-beltway thing and that Middle America will go along as it always has. But what it will say to middle America is that we are ruled, not governed, and that the elites will do whatever they please. That is the road to revolution.

They are playing with fire.

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